Microsoft just came out with a private cloud…well, another one. They tried private cloud a few years ago, but quickly moved on to their Azure public cloud service. So far, they have been successful in promoting their public cloud, largely due to their existing customer base. Of course, AWS remains their largest competitor, but Microsoft’s growth has actually accelerated in the IaaS market.

The larger question: how do the private clouds play within the enterprise? That is a larger question than the viability of Azure Stack. Microsoft is the latest to push private and hybrid cloud, but if they are successful, others are likely to enter, or reenter the market, perhaps even public cloud-only AWS and Google...

Azure Stack has been a long time coming. After a year of technical preview, Microsoft has now delivered the first long-awaited release to its hardware partners. These partners include Dell EMC, HPE, and Lenovo. The partners will begin shipping their integrated systems with Azure Stack in September...